RE: collections of primitive types

[Mondragon, Ian]

travis,

  typically, you'd wrap your numbers (whatever type they may be) in
NSNumbers, and then add them to an array.  Float/Int/String/WhateverArray's
could easily be created (that's what someone did here at work a looooooong
time ago), however.

- ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Griggs [SMTP:tgriggs@keyww.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:26 PM
> To:   GNUstep
> Subject:      collections of primitive types
> 
> It looks like I'll have to do my own high res time object, hopefully 
> these tutorials will elucidate how I build up a reusable library of such 
> objects, and what the common conventions are for doing so. So, I'm on to 
> my next question...
> 
> NSArray looks fine for storing objects. But quite often I want an array 
> of floats or ints. What's the general approach? Do I box up the 
> primitive numbers in objects and use NSArray? Is there a FloatArray or 
> IntArray thing? Write my own?
> 
> And why can't NSArray hold nil's? I thought nil was an object in 
> Objective-C and that you could send messages to it.
> 
> -- 
> Travis Griggs
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